I am Tokyo-born to a Japanese mother and Canadian father.
I grew up in Tokyo and later Vancouver and graduated from the University of British Columbia with a BA (Honors) in History/ International Relations in 2002.
When I was 19 my father suddenly passed away and I was forced to turn to a business career in Tokyo and New York to support myself. In 2008 I embarked on a solo journey around the world in order to find peace with the course of my life. It was at this time that my interest in photography and solo journeys began.
In 2015, I studied photography under Sam Abell and he encouraged me to choose it as a career.
My work has been shown in magazines such as PDN, where I won the best landscape project for “The Curator” Awards in 2017 and Fraction Media, selected for the Critical Mass Top 50 for 2017, two silver awards at the 2017 Paris Photo Prize and a gold award at the Tokyo Int'l Foto Awards.
After spending 990 days on the road, I finally settled back in Tokyo this summer.